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Graduate study and interfaith dialogue at Harvard Divinity School

When serving a religious community where everyone subscribes to the same faith, with the same level of intensity, it is easy to adopt a kind of intellectual shorthand: there is a common assumption that everyone is on the same 'page' when it comes to their interpretation of the Bible and the mission…

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetorical strategies in Birmingham Jail Letter

Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. defends acts of civil disobedience in the fight for Black equality to supposedly moderate white ministers who oppose the movement.

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Demographic and attitudinal characteristics of federal long-term care insurance buyers

Lifeplans, Inc. (2004). "A Comparative Analysis of the Socio-Demographic and Attitudinal Characteristics of Active Buyers and Non-Buyers of Long-Term Care Insurance in the Federal, Private and Public Sectors." U.S. Dept. Of Health and Human Services

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Human resource strategy and organizational effectiveness through people management

Organizations are Defined by the People Behind Them: Shaping the Organization Through People Strategies An organization is defined in the minds of those entities and people with which the organization relies upon for business and profit by the people within the organization.

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Racial disparities in sentencing for drug offenses and crack cocaine

Why do African-Americans convicted of crimes get longer jail sentences as a general rule? This paper will address that question through use of several sources. But there are other disparities in terms of race and punishment, and those will be reviewed as well.

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Debunking the charisma requirement in effective leadership

At certain points in my life I have had a tendency to place certain figures of authority on mental pedestals, esteeming them beyond what their actual qualities and actions warranted.

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Inclusive public management: resource allocation and stakeholder engagement

Management Journal. 12:2, 137-71. Inclusive Public Management is a term that is used to describe a paradigm of management style that evolved from the more traditional form of public administration, advocated as early as the turn of the century under President Woodrow Wilson and others.

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Affirmative action's effects on minority law student outcomes

One of the most controversial recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding affirmative action was Grutter v.

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Depression screening in prison populations using the Beck Depression Inventory

Screening for Depression in Prisoners Using the Beck Depression Inventory" by Boothby & Durham examines depression levels of a random sample of 1,494 prisoners admitted into the North Carolina state prison system between September 1995 and February 1997 using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)…

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Key concepts in experimental design and validity

External Validity - is the degree to which the conclusions of a study would hold true under different circumstances. Field Experiment -- are experiments that are conducted outside of a laboratory.

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