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Media bias and voter perception in American political news coverage

From 1962 to his retirement in 1981, Walter Cronkite led America through such pivotal events as the Kennedy assassination, the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal as the anchor on the CBS Evening News.

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Filial revenge and public sympathy in Nationalist China

Shi Jianqiao became a media sensation in Nationalist China during the 1930s for shooting the ex-warlord Sun Chuanfang, a leading member of the Tianjin Qingxiu lay-Buddhist society (jushilin). She shot Sun three times on November 13, 1935 in prayer hall (congregation site) on Nanma Road.

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Gender and cultural differences in global leadership styles

Considering the scenario of today's world, the rapidly changing demographics have played a critical role in the emergence of new styles of leadership. The definition of competitiveness and the qualities associated with a leader have also changed in the current times.

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Title VII's impact on women's workplace equality and pay

Legislative background. The word "sex" is always an attention-getter, and when used in legislation, it can be polarizing. Public Law 82-352 (78 Stat. 241) was passed by Congress in 1964 as a civil rights statute.

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Gwendolyn Brooks's radical turn in "Speech to the Young"

Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward. "even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right.

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Ethical leadership and corporate responsibility in modern American capitalism

Given the recent crash on Wall Street and the housing market symbolized by corrupt financiers like Bernard Madoff, ethical and moral leadership of corporations has become a major issue for those who study the American capitalist system.

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Herding behavior and the neurological basis of bank panics

The work of Devenow and Welch (1996) states that the most basic of human instincts is likely to be that of "…imitation and mimicry" which are the primary characteristics in what is known as 'herding' which often specifically occurs related to such as "fashion and fads…" (Devenow and Welch, 1996,…

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The SIRUP approach to semantic data integration and heterogeneous sources

The work of Ziegler and Dittrich (nd) reports that integration is "becoming more and more indispensable in order not to drown in data while starving for information." The goal of data integration is "to combine data from different sources by applying global data model and by detecting and resolving…

~16 min read

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Rhythmic entrainment as a method to promote team flow and shared leadership

Facilitate Shared Leadership and Team Flow? Management literature is rife with advice on how to engage teams of workers in their tasks, how to get teams to cooperate, and how to build cultural identity as a company.

~19 min read

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Media policy challenges in Benkler's Wealth of Networks framework

It is said that the Western culture is going through some sort of cultural war in terms of communication and technology (Braman 153-182).

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