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In his novel 1984, George Orwell foresaw a future for humanity that was explicitly and completely under the control of the government.

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Identity and belonging for mixed-race adolescents

It didn't even occur to me back then that the reason they didn't like me was because of their own prejudices, not because I was inferior in any way. I just knew that they thought I was not as dark as them and so that gave them enough reasons to make fun of me.

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Counseling approaches and cultural satisfaction with mental health services

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How family communication patterns shaped my college major

I come from a very large family who did not always communicate well. I have three sisters and four brothers and very loud parents who did more yelling than communicating when we were growing up. As a result, this is how I learned to communicate.

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Transcendental experience and universal self-discovery in Emerson and Whitman

The 'experience' which is used to inform the composition of literature in general is vulnerable to critical scrutiny primarily because it aspires to state or observe something about the human experience which is universal.

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Personal literary preferences and the national character of literature

To me when I think of literature, I generally think of fiction, and works written by masters of old.

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Ronald Reagan's early life and Hollywood years

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Charley's restraint and self-control in Death of a Salesman

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General Electric's international operations, market systems, and corporate social responsibility

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Confucianism and Western influence in the construction of Meiji masculinity

Japanese history attribute Meiji masculinity to the peculiar customs of the Meiji period, its specific characteristics of the Emperor, and, in some related way, its association with the Western world.

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