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		<title>Comparative Advantage</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/comparative-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting piece that discusses the practical affects of comparative advantage.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=353&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Types: An Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organisational Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analyser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Analyzer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a high level overview of the theory of 'Strategic Types'. It is intended to provide the reader with a grounding in the theory in preparation for an upcoming post on 'Sales Force Management'.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=320&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agency Theory: An Overview</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/agency-theory-an-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organisational Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agency Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eisenhardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Positivist Agency Theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a high level overview of the theory of 'Agency Theory'. It is intended to provide the reader with a grounding in the theory in preparation for an upcoming post on 'Sales Force Management'.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=312&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Acceptance Speeches: Barack Obama vs Kevin Rudd</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/acceptance-speeches-barack-obama-vs-kevin-rudd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Acceptance Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhetorical Devices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A critical analysis of two similar speeches demonstrating the effect of varying the incidence of rhetorical devices.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=252&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Speech Construction Elements by Colour</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Obama Original Applause with New Arrangement</media:title>
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		<title>Russell Baker, humerously on objects</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/russell-baker-humerously-on-objects/</link>
		<comments>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/russell-baker-humerously-on-objects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russell Baker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him. - Russell Baker<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=249&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laurence J. Peter on &#8216;competence&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/laurence-j-peter-on-competence/</link>
		<comments>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/laurence-j-peter-on-competence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.&#8221; - Laurence J. Peter<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=240&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George Bernard Shaw on &#8216;democracy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/george-bernard-shaw-on-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.&#8221; - George Bernard Shaw<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=94&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas Chamfort on Man as an Actor</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/247/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[actor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Chamfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.&#8221; -Nicholas Chamfort<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=247&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic Republic of the Congo &#8211; Rape as a weapon</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-rape-as-a-weapon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[rape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rape as a weapon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexual slavery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to my speech on the Democractic Republic of the Congo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gIYpRWMXUQ<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=233&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche and nihilism</title>
		<link>http://spursinn.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/nietzsche-and-nihilism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hedonism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-modern]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nietzsche saw nihilism as the emptying meaning from the world. It is a situation whereby the world is emptied of morals, truth, judgement and values. When he declared, “God is dead, and we killed him.” Nietzsche acknowledged the move to scientific thinking had supplanted faith. The loss of a higher power that could define absolutes meant that all morals, truth and values were now open to question.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spursinn.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5537269&amp;post=224&amp;subd=spursinn&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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