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Asian stereotypes and barriers to genuine communication

Jackie Chan!" I looked around me. At first I honestly did not know what he was talking about. Did he not get my name right? "No, my name is Jonathan," I told him. We stopped shaking hands and then it hit me. I'm Asian.

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John Winthrop's vision of social and spiritual reform in "A Model of Christian Charity"

Reform- both social and spiritual- had been an important subject of debate in the days when church and state had not yet been separated. It was only after the separation of church and state that reform stopped being such a pressing issue.

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Hypothetical effects of raising the military drinking age policy

What would happen if the drinking age were raised in the military? George Will once said, "Sensible politics begins with epistemological modesty about what one can know about a complicated society" (2011).

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Concert experiences in live versus televised formats

Perceptions and Expectations: Analyzing the Concert Experience in a Live vs. Televised Format In experiencing a real-life situation in the flesh rather than in viewing its projection through a medium such as television, one's experience differs significantly.

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Correspondence bias, cultural variations, and attribution errors in social psychology

Are there cultural variations in the correspondence bias? In the practice of social psychology, correspondence bias or also known as the theory of fundamental attribution error will refer to the over-valuing of explanations that are based from personality perspective under circumstantial…

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The prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration in America

There are over two million people incarcerated in the United States today, this comes out to fifteen prisoners for every 100,000 persons (Pager, 2003, p. 937). This is a 600% increase since the 1970s and gives the country the highest internment rate on the planet.

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Virginia Woolf's experimental writing and stream of consciousness technique

Virginia Woolf is considered to be one of the most influential writers of her time because of her experimental style and modern approach to writing. Many of Woolf's pieces reflect a unique perspective, which allow her to explore areas such as stream of consciousness writing and feminist views.

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John Rawls's theory of justice as fairness

In the Preface to A Theory of Justice, the late philosopher John Rawls goes beyond what would normally be expected of an author in terms of laying out practical suggestions "to make things easier for the reader," such as noting that his "fundamental intuitive ideas of the theory of justice" are to…

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Ownership of ideas: philosophical approaches and case study

The ownership of ideas is a complicated, prickly academic and legal issue and one that has being debated for some time now. It has gained prominence with the emergence of Information technology and related tools but the concept itself has been around for centuries.

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Evolution of fast food in America from the 1950s to present

The past 55 years have witnessed a number of history-changing events, but one of the most enduring to have emerged from the political and social turbulence has been the propensity of people around the world to eat fast food.

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