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Biological and social factors in Maya Angelou's resilience

As a young woman, the poet, dancer, and intellectual Maya Angelou faced seemingly impossible odds. She grew up in an era where discrimination against African-Americans was still widely tolerated.

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Project Open Hand's mission of meals with love for seniors

Project Open Hand provides "meals with love" to seniors and individuals with terminal illnesses. I have been volunteering for Project Open Hand for the past five months, and in that period have come to understand much about how charitable organizations work and carry out their missions each day.

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Workplace ergonomics: repetitive strain, computer monitors, and keyboard injuries

Prior to the widespread use of computers in the workplace, ergonomics issues in the workplace most often involved repetitive motion injuries.

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Verbal sparring and love in Much Ado About Nothing

They never meet but there is a skirmish of wit between them" (1.1.58-61). William Shakespeare's comic play Much Ado About Nothing portrays the funny, but also painful and violent adjustment that occurs when soldiers must socially reorient themselves to peacetime.

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Treatment approaches to mental illness across psychological schools of thought

Each of the major schools of thought in psychology propose treatment interventions for mental disorders. The therapeutic interventions vary depending on the theory's model of mental illness such as perceptions of etiology and goals of treatment.

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The Iroquois Confederacy's influence on American democratic formation

Contact between Europeans and Native Americans undoubtedly shaped the course of New World history. Political alliances enabled strategic partnerships for trade as well as land settlements.

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Erickson's concept-based curriculum and instruction theory

Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction: Teaching Beyond the Facts. Identify and discuss the main point of the Erickson text. (Why did she write the book and what points were made?)

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Poetic devices in David Hernandez and Pablo Neruda's work

David Hernandez and Pablo Neruda capitalize on poetic devices in their poetry. Each uses distinct devices to convey specific messages, too, making the form of the poetry parallel their meaning, mood, and theme.

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Total compensation methods and employee job selection decisions

While base salary is obviously an important component of a job seeker's decision to select a particular position, attractive benefit packages and other methods of compensation bestowed by various corporations have grown increasingly important in the lives of employees, particularly given the…

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Media consolidation's effects on news diversity and political representation

"The market structures of commercial mass media in the first decade of the 21st century have moved far from atomistic competition in the direction of oligopoly and monopolistic competition" (Blosser 2010, p. 14).

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