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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…

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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.

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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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An integrated approach to defining and understanding learning styles

In contemporary psychology, learning is one of the key topics; however, defining it is a very complex thing. According to the general accepted definitions of learning, it is "understanding," "knowledge," or "comprehension" that is achieved with experience or practice.

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Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for anxiety and depression symptoms

Depression and anxiety are related to cognitive as well as psychological impairments. Both these disorders not only affect the life of the ones suffering from it, but also that of the people in the surrounding. Similarly, alcoholism is also another multifaceted social and health concern.

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The autobiographical writings of Benjamin Franklin and John Woolman

The forefathers of our country were not known for their emotional clarity. Neither were they known for expressing publicly their private sense of self. Those who became known at all were known for their hard work and dedication to the public causes meant to benefit the common good.

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