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The male gaze, performativity, and gendered economics in Berger, Butler, and Waring

Berger, Butler, and Waring provide unique and distinct perspectives on gender, sex, and power. Feminism is almost by definition a study of power and inequality, given the prevalence and pervasiveness of patriarchy worldwide.

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Workplace bullying's impact on victims and organizational performance

When most people think of bullying, they conceptualize schoolyard toughs terrorizing their helpless, weaker peers just as they have done for centuries. The harsh reality today, though, is that bullying is also pervasive in the American workplace today.

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Adjusting presentations for different audience types and managing tension

When making a presentation or a speech to a n audience, there are bound to be different types of audiences since not any two presentations will have the same type of audiences.

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The war on drugs: financial and social costs of a failed policy

Opening facts and statistics to grab the reader's attention. Development of main ideas, leading to thesis. The war on drugs must be stopped for two main reasons: the financial costs, and the social costs.

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Social identity and human agency in Beckett and Nabokov

The human is not a self-sufficient entity, but is built through social conventions. This notion reveals itself in the transitional postmodern works by Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov -- specifically, in Lolita and Waiting for Godot.

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Identifying human trafficking victims for healthcare and social service intervention

Quite often, victims are not forthcoming about their situation and it is the social worker, not the victim, that must initiate the necessary proceedings to ensure that justice is done.

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Religious rhetoric and propaganda in "A Common Word Between U.S. and You"

The critical analysis of the aforementioned work, A COMMON WORD BETWEEN U.S. AND YOU offers highly charged rhetoric to the audience.

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WiMAX networks as economic accelerators for metropolitan communities

The potential for Metropolitan-based Wi-Fi and WiMAX to transform entire communities and the companies who operate within them is very significant.

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Evolutionary psychology and mate selection in human behavior

What is evolutionary psychology? How does it explain mate selection? Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an advance that looks at psychological traits such as memory, perception and language for a contemporary evolutionary perspective in regards to social and natural sciences.

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Singapore's low fertility rate and psychological reactance to government incentives

The total fertility rate in Singapore has declined to a record low of 1.22 in 2009 and 1.16 in 2010 from 1.28 in 2008. The problem of the low fertility rate is common across the three major ethnic groups in the country.

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