... quotes Escobar as saying that post-development thinkers were "interested not in development alternatives but in alternatives to development." Escobar (2007) further argues that to achieve this, it is necessary to avoid similar constructs of development, recognizing the "political economy of truth," bringing agents into knowledge centers particularly those in the community itself, and bolstering social movements. A focus on the ... of post-development itself have arisen as post-development has gained a stronger following. One of the sharpest criticisms is based on the supposition that bef...

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... generate respective biofuels, such as fermentation producing bioethanol, and pyrolysis producing bio-oil and biogas (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy). This paper will concentrate on the methods of microalgae production: photoautotrophic (open ponds and photobioreactors), and heterotrophic methods. Photoautotrophic systems are used for most microalgae that acquire light and CO2 for photosynthesis ... less maintenance efforts, which can reduce the required energy to produce microalgae and generate their potential. On the other hand, the open pond system experiences certain...

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... theorizing and philosophizing are carried out. Now I also imagine Bonjour alone in his office, thinking first about foundationalist theories of epistemic justification and recognizing and elaborating on the weaknesses of foundationalism. Afterwards, he then attempts to characterize an alternative theory of epistemic justification, which is his coherence theory, and in doing so he makes ... Dr. Perez' class to represent foundationalism and cohenrentism. Foundationalism is represented by the image of a pyramid where the base of the pyramid represents the basic or foundational beliefs and th...

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... , with Angkor Wat being known as perhaps the most prominent legacy left behind (CIA Fact book). Due to the fact that Cambodia possesses such a rich history, I will focus on the epochs I believe have forged the country into what the political situation is like today. During the late 19th century, the Cambodian king at the time turned to the French for assistance, as Cambodia had been suffering ... makes political decisions within the nation, with the prime minister holding significantly more influence. The prime minister of Cambodia is appointed by the king on behalf of the recommendation ...

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... to cost reduction, increased productivity, and in assisting an agency in staying organized, it seems appropriate to touch on the question of what types of systems are the most useful. Of course, this question will depend to a great extent on the type, size, and scope of the nonprofit and its core mission. For example, an organization that deals with large amounts of clerical data concerning clientele ... profit world, businesses change and modify their mission statements at will to suit the latest trend or whim, but the nonprofit on the other hand has a mission that is not only a social ...

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... themselves as writers from coming between the reader and the life they presented in their art. Also, the age of the Romantics valued the details of the present moment as a way to transcend the moment and the present world, the age of Realism on the other hand values the surface details, the everyday life, and the common conduct of middle class individuals. They do this with the purpose of creating the illusion of reality. Herik Ibsen ... said that the effect he was seeking in his Realistic ... ...

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... of "English-ness" or "German-ness." Thus this form of nationalism uses pre-existing elements of the culture of a nation and revives, invents, or transforms its traditions. Nationalism, thus only appears on the surface in specific situations in which the integrity of the nation state is in danger, perhaps exemplified by Americans placing flags outside their houses following September 11th. ... By contrast, the illegitimate state holds the predominance of one nation above the others and attempts to instil a common culture, thus creating a nation ... media in recent years has certainly go...

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... Communism. Clive Archer, an authored political scientist states: By March 1994, the EU Council of Ministers had agreed to hold annual meetings between the EU presidency, the Commission president and the leaders of the European Agreement states, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia twice yearly meetings were also to be held on the subjects of justice and home matters such as terrorism and human rights ... , and foreign and security questions. The European Union is considering several of these states ... ...

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... sports players and fanatics, but it also extends into the city government. In the 2002-2003 season of Steelers football, when the Steelers were driving for the Superbowl, the mayor of Pittsburgh, Tom Murphy, counted himself in on the fun and excitement. Each time the Steelers were to face a new team in the playoffs, Mayor Murphy would challenge the mayor of the opposing city to a mayorial friendly wager, in which each ... mayor would wager against the opposing team's victory. Upon decision of the wager by the actual score of the game, the losing team's mayor would be presented with spor...

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... there is a scent every human is born with that bonds everyone together and so you can notice each other and stick together; Grenouille on the other hand has no scent at all when he is born he just has the most keen sense of smell unlike anyone else. This could be considered a symbol or metaphor for Grenouille of having little to no soul ... instead there are businesses with healthy people and a market place for people to buy good clean food. Despite all of this Grenouille's mother on the day that he is born is also another irony in the novel. Through narrative perspective the narrator g...

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... to create new knowledge (Van den Hooff & De Ridder, 2004). Several studies thus far have linked organizational structure (i.e. the hierarchical structure), culture and transformational leadership as having a huge effect on knowledge sharing, however, despite the linkage the effectiveness of sharing can also be difficult to measure (Epple et al 1996), it has also been suggested that two ... directions can sometimes be too vague or detailed with neither providing a clear picture and guideline to employees. Numerous studies exist on the benefits and pitfalls of diverse organisation structur...

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... ). This scandal brought more attention to financial fraud than ever before and ultimately it was that fear and attention that forced the SEC to increase regulations on corporate governance and financial disclosure through the implementation of the Sarbanes Oxley Act (Buckstein). The collapse of Enron was undoubtedly due to a mix of bad corporate ethics, lack of corporate governance, manipulated accounting guidelines, ... to be which, is that management is actually there to serve the board (Maleske). These new regulations gave the board more power and responsibility such as working with t...

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... force. The ignorance of the majority on the Right of the cabinet saw great optimism in the Dutch military and the elimination of the Republicans the events actually became opposite. A major supporter on the decolonisation from the European Empires was from the United States. Being that the US was certainly becoming, if not already, a superpower in the world after the Second World War, it certainly had an influence and could instil pressure on the British Empire. Built on the liberties ... of freedom and independence, the ... ...

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... regard health and safety as good initiaitves, they are not entirely clear of the benefits these initiatives can have on an organisational level, as there was no cocnrete economic evidence hinting towards the impact health and safety promoting activities can have on the organisation's performance. The concept of workplace health and safety is now considered a real issue by most ... organisations, but while developing and promoting the initiatives for the actual issue, it is seen that the development deviates towards general health education and promotional ... employers in understanding h...

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... sources to come up with the best way to deal with the problem, making record of the received suggestions, integrate the client in searching for possible solutions to the problem, consider consequences of each decision made and evaluate the impact they would make in solving the problem and finally deciding on the best course of actions after considering the many options, implementing the course of action and undertaking ... ease. HIV/AIDS is a personal aspect and should be treated with privacy and confidentiality. There should be an agreement between me, as a counselor, and the client o...

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... by allowing parliament to be supreme, the notwithstanding clause limits the vital guarantees of the Constitution. The inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Constitution rejects the very principles of the document in which it is held. The clause allows government to enact laws that infringe on fundamental rights found in the Charter, while the aim of the Charter is to entrench basic rights ... be adapted. As cultures and societies change and adapt, so must the laws that govern them. The notwithstanding clause is, on the other hand, not the only tool that legislatures can ...

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... illness and diseases. In a world where rapid advancements and revolutionary breakthroughs are on the horizon all occurring in modern medicine at such a rapid pace, the field of Neuroradiology is no exception. The first diagnostic imaging technique to be used, now considered somewhat extinct in the specialty of neurodiagnology was the x-ray. The x-ray was born in on November 8, 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad R RÖntgen who inadvertently made his ... facilities with strengths of 3 Telsa. Larger MRI scanners exists mostly for research purposes, to date the 2 ton 8 Telsa at Ohio State University is...

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... Italy due to anger of French rule. The reducing population of Rome signifies the negative view countries such as Italy had on the conscription system forced upon by the French, with the impact reducing the strength of the military available to the Italians while inevitably having a negative impact on the economy due to the funding they must pay to the French for housing their troops within Italy and ... how they would have to replace the troops that had ... high prices. This does link to the social tension Napoleon had already caused in Italy following the high levels of conscription pl...

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EL NORTE El Norte (The North) nos relata la historia de Enrique (David Villalpando) y Rosa (Zaide Silvia Gutierrez), hermanos sanguineos, que huyen de la miseria y del peligro que los hasechan, con el unico proposito de ... ...

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... equivalents to that of a European immigrant children. The results suggest that academic and family background provides an arena for even the immigrant children to complete in a collective intelligence. The effect of this competition on the society as a whole is that the collective intelligence is able to build upon itself and thus is able to grow consciously. These three quotes demonstrate different points of how mass media portrays ... immigrations in collective intelligence. More specifically, the media focuses on methods of discovering the intellectuals and providing incentive ... ...

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... under less pressure to do so. Third, and related to both of the forgoing, Hobsbawm also explained that the old stopgaps of governments, as in protectionist legislation, are no longer in place. The emphasis that has been placed on a Free Market ideology has had the result of weakening or removing the mechanisms that once used to ease social upheavals and economic downturns. Many governments ... no longer feel that their members work under the old aim of making mass ... been absorbed by national or other economies' labour needs. As Hartnagel explained of Canadian youths making the trans...

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... . At thirty-three Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac, a collection, effectively, of his own quotes, assembled under the pseudonym Richard Saunders'. Franklin used the character Poor Richard', after the alleged author, to personify the moral codes and work ethics he wished to enforce on other Americans. For instance: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small and the wants great', describing the pleasures of his successful contemporaries ... , and the dissatisfaction which they tried to extinguish with ... ...

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... would become entangled. Therefore, they reached the conclusion that the entanglement of photons was just created at random. By coincidence and not by natural reactions which could be explained by the laws of physics. This angered Albert Einstein, being the world's greatest mind at the time, even he was bewildered and perplexed with the conclusion that the entanglement of two photons happened at random ... forcing him to announce the words, "I cannot and I refuse to believe that God plays ... with no evidence, in other words impossible; however, throughout the years, it has been succes...

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... in relation to matters connected with the matters aforesaid." The enactment of this law by the Irish State in 1939 was anything but surprising. As explained by Judge Walsh in a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on 25 June 1986, the introduction of this law followed a statement by the IRA, in December 1938, proclaiming that all the powers of the Executive Committee of the first Irish parliament had been transferred ... by the members of this Parliament to the IRA council. Other declarations in January 1939 proclaimed ... ...

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... help both Mussolini and Hitler to enhance their ideologies to a great extent through the use of propaganda, nationalism, deception and many other ways, which will explained thoroughly throughout this essay. When comparing the ideological importance of sport under Hitler and Mussolini there becomes the dissimilarity of the image they each wanted to be portrayed as because Mussolini wanted to be depicted ... lesser extent could isolate and politicize German antiquity due to the lack of German history. Therefore he had to import political symbols, including the Swastika and Nazi eagle, into...

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