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Teaching ethics and values alongside subject expertise in education

As an educator, I am tasked not only with imparting knowledge to my students on a certain subject or subjects, but also with installing in them principals through which they can live responsible lives in an ever changing world.

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Racism, feminism, and celebrity culture in contemporary America

American culture is a melting pot of ideas, beliefs, immigrants, and values, that all combine to make us a unique and divergent society. Racism, feminism, and celebrity culture are all facets of that culture, and they have significance for a number of reasons.

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Branding strategies and trusted advisor status in global markets

Assessing the Influence of branding on consumer purchase behavior is begins with an analysis of how the accumulated effects of marketing strategies contribute to the permanency of branding and their accumulative effects on consumers.

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Digital influencers' roles in Web 2.0 technologies and social influence

Web 2.0 stretch traditional influencing patterns? (Eccleston, Griseri, 2008) the authors contend that the analyses completed of digital influencers' roles leads to the definition of three dominant groups or segments of online influencers.

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Violence and rationality in Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs

Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs is a cinematic masterpiece that happens to contain gruesome imagery and themes of violence and nihilism.

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Mark Noll's "God and race in American politics": religious rhetoric and political stratification

This work is a demonstration of the ability of any historian with the knowledge to do so being able to draw a direct line between decisions made today and their ideological basis.

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The Constant Gardener and U.S. responsibility for global healthcare justice

The Constant Gardener" (2005): What should be the role of the United States in promoting global economic justice and human flourishing?

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Machiavelli's analysis of Hiero and Agathocles in the Prince

In Nicolo's Machiavelli's the Prince, in chapters six and thirteen, Machiavelli talks about the strengths of a prince in terms of his abilities vs. his birthright, and his strength as a prince in terms of those who back him.

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Economic collapse and moral decline in the Weimar Republic

The Weimer republic, of post-WWI Germany was in many ways doomed to social and political failure, most profoundly because of the economic climate of the period which it encompassed.

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Personal computer components, functions, and system architecture

Personal computer is a small computational device that relies in a microprocessor to manage the coordination of system software, inputs, outputs, application software and increasingly, integration to the Internet.

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