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Gender and racial discrimination in fire departments: FDNY, Chicago, and Dallas

Over time, nearly every profession once considered the exclusive province of men (and in the case of the United States, white men) has gradually been made accessible to minorities, whether through practical necessity, changing cultural standards, or court orders.

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The roles of Black women during slavery and Reconstruction

The concept of slavery in America has engendered a great deal of scholarship. During the four decades following reconstruction, despite the hopes of the liberals in the North, the position of the Negro in America declined.

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Sampling and lived experience in authentic hip-hop

According to J.D. Williams, "DJs and producers have always used sampling in hip-hop and, as a result, it has become synonymous with authentic hip-hop" (Williams 2007:12). Yet, according to 50 Cent, hip-hop "is in a struggle of being artistic or [having] authenticity" (Conway 2010).

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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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Technology's harmful effects on American culture and young people

New technologies have caused big problems for print media such as books, newspapers and magazines because more and more people are turning to online sources for these materials.

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Materialism and redemption in Tolstoy and Chekhov

This is the case in Leo Tolstoy's story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?," considering that the central character, Pahom, believes that happiness is equivalent to material wealth.

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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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How the Internet has destroyed modern moral values

The technological era that we as a society have entered has completely altered the way that morality and proper behavior is viewed and expressed. Before the Internet was as freely used as it is now, there was more control as to what children and teenagers had access to.

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Ideological criticism of bisexual and transgender representation in The L Word

Showtime's drama series the L Word, which ran from 2004 to 2009, features a cast of lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered characters, and has been lauded for its representations of non-heterosexual individuals and relationships.

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Historiographical approaches to the First Opium War

The historical discussion of the First Anglo-Chinese War (frequently referred to as the First Opium War) included a variety of competing perspectives even as the war was still being fought, because either side viewed the war in entirely different contexts.

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